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The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop)

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Brand new journal on linguistic approaches to the language of pop culture. First issue 2025. Editors-in-Chief: Valentin Werner, Mie Hiramoto, and Dr Paul Flanagan. Webpage: https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop.

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As well as three OA book reviews by Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano, Andrea Hollington, and Ricardo Römhild.

21.02.2026 09:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Volume 2, Issue 1, 2026 | Journal of Language and Pop Culture Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

We're very happy to announce the publication of issue 2(1) of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture.

It features contributions by Christoph Schubert, Dr. Gardy Stein, Lorenzo Mastropierro & Kathy Conklin, and Harald Spann & Thomas Wagner.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

21.02.2026 09:15 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Review of Tontiplaphol & Klimchynskaya (2024): The literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and intertextuality Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

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…Are you ready for it?*

(*By which I mean my @jlpopculture.bsky.social review of ‘The Literary Taylor Swift’. If so, click here: doi.org/10.1075/jlpop.25017.ada 👀)

06.01.2026 16:42 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

A new Online First book review is available from the Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano evaluates The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen, edited by Irene Ranzato & Patrick Zabalbeascoa. OA access is available at lnkd.in/dyfkMb25

22.08.2025 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A new issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now available (benjamins.com/catalog/jlpo...), featuring contributions as shown below. We invite submissions (including interdisciplinary ones) on a rolling basis- see the JLPop website for further information: benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop

16.07.2025 08:15 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Tapping into the educational potential of pop songs in foreign language teaching through action research | John Benjamins Abstract This paper reports a two-year action research project about the potential literary and linguistic value of pop songs in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching. Considering pop songs as ...

In the second of our two new articles over at JLPop Online First, Harald Spann & Thomas Wagner are "Tapping into the educational potential of pop songs in foreign language teaching through action research": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

21.05.2025 14:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good and evil in the voices of fictional characters | John Benjamins Abstract This article examines whether audiences ascribe moral qualities to fictional characters based on the sound of their voices. We first review psychological and sociocultural mechanisms whereby ...

In the first of two new articles on JLPop, in a perception study of video game characters, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen et al. explore "Good and evil in the voices of fictional characters": www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

21.05.2025 14:40 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
The fantastic Dionysis Goutsos take a diachronic look at (im)politeness in Greek film discourse
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/jlpo...

18.03.2025 09:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Your Wrong

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti!

I’d love your help to find examples!

05.02.2025 09:34 👍 53 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 1
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Online panel on language in fictional film and television on 19 February

04.02.2025 00:35 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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There will be an online launch for the Journal of Language and Pop Culture on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 UK time with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W

03.02.2025 08:47 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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The first issue of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture is now live, and available open access at www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. See below for the contents, which cover pop music, film, video games, and social media discourse

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